forwarding a question asked on the w3c-wai-ig emailing list in response
to a question about the plans for implementing unicorn as a RESTful-type
of web service
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From: "Jamal Mazrui" <Jamal.Mazrui@fcc.gov>
To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:14:15 -0400
Subj: RE: unicorn: a new validator from w3c
> This sounds good. I skimmed the documentation and did not find mention
> of making Unicorn available as a web service (ideally, a RESTful-
> type of service that is easy for developers to use). Can anyone
> here report whether this is planned in addition to the manual,
> web form interface?
>
> Jamal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Gregory J. Rosmaita Sent: Wednesday,
> October 07, 2009 11:43 AM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject:
> unicorn: a new validator from w3c
>
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> From: Jean-Guilhem Rouel <jean-gui@w3.org>
> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:43:38 +0200
> Message-ID: <4AC4EA4A.9030807@w3.org>
> To: "public-qa-dev@w3.org list" <public-qa-dev@w3.org>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Unicorn aims to provide the big picture about the quality of a
> Web page, by gathering the results of several tools (markup
> validator, CSS validator, ...) into a single cohesive interface.
>
> This project started in 2006 and today is an important milestone
> as many improvements have been made to Unicorn recently thanks
> to Thomas Gambet, an intern at W3C Europe. A changelog [1] and
> roadmap [2] are available.
>
> First of all, I'd like to thank Thomas for all the work he has
> done in the past 2.5 months and is still doing until the end of October.
>
> We are now seeking feedback. Unicorn is available at
> http://qa-dev.w3.org/unicorn. Please try it out and send your feedback
> to public-qa-dev@w3.org. If you enjoy it, feel free to use it on
> a regular basis, but bear in mind this is a development instance
> and subject to change. We hope to move it into production in the
> near future.
>
> Thanks,
> Jean-Gui
>
> [2] http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Unicorn/changelog
> [3] http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Unicorn/roadmap
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